Whatever Happened to the ‘Arab Spring’?
Bliss was it in that spring to be alive, and to be young, on the streets,...
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2012
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The spirit and institutions of Greek democracy are dying, but who really cares? Kostas Vaxevanis does....
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If you were told that the Islamic world was the birthplace of the democratic system would...
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The day before I’m due to interview Somsri Hananuntasuk in steamy downtown Bangkok, mean-faced riot police...
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India’s most respected public intellectual Ashis Nandy recently appealed to his fellow citizens to recognise and...
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Dear reader, don’t let yourselves be fooled: whatever political charlatans, cynics or melancholics say to the...
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In preparation for an upcoming event at the University of Sydney, I’ve been re-reading ex-diplomat Stefan Halper’s...
Read MoreBob Dylan in Berlin
It was raw, convincing, a two-hour burst of unsmiling defiance, a croaky voice of the not-young,...
Read MoreConfucius Says…
A popular recent joke in China tells of two Communist Party members enjoying drinks in...
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